Career Opportunities for LGBTQ STEM Grads: Brighter Than Ever

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) college students nearing graduation and preparing to pursue a career in their chosen fields are increasingly looking for employers who are LGBTQ-inclusive.

The Human Rights Campaign annually compiles and updates its Corporate Equality Index (CEI): a list of companies meeting criteria identifying them as LGBTQ-inclusive. HRC periodically increases the challenge for companies to earn a 100% CEI rating.

Corporations are evaluated for LGBTQ-inclusiveness in categories including:

Corporate America has made great progress in making workplaces more LGBTQ-friendly in recent years as companies increasingly compete for new talent, despite political uncertainty and absence of federal regulations guaranteeing LGBTQ people workplace equality. The number of companies reaching the 100% Coporate Equality Index rating has steadily increased over time, even as HRC continues to increase the requirements to achieve such a rating.

A significant number of these companies are of particular interest to graduates in the STEM fields. Listed in this document are companies from the numerous business segments employing talented science, technology, engineering and mathematics professionals. They all have HRC CEI ratings of 100%!

Source: HRC Corporate Equality Index, published by the Human Rights Campaign. Last accessed June 10, 2017.

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